agile

Jurgen Appelo -- agile expert and author of the new book, Change Management 3.0 -- is coming to Skills Matter this October. Jurgen will be talking to Agile people who feel responsible for organizational change (scrum masters, team leaders, etc.) on how to change the world.

In this three-day hands-on course you will learn the principles and practices of Clean Code as described in Robert C. Martin's book: Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship.

This 4-day practical course is about building software within an enterprise environment in a structured, lightweight and pragmatic way.

This month the Limited WIP Society presents an experience report by Nader Talai, an active member of the London agile community. Nader will present his experiences working with a geographically spread team accross two location in UK and two sites in India.

Janet Gregory, the globe-trotting Agile consultant and co-author of the very popular Practical Agile Testing book, will come from Calgary, Canada, to London to teach her 3 day practical agile testing course.

Steve Freeman's Growing Real Systems Guided by Tests is an advanced course for those who want to improve their practice of Test-Driven Development.

The UK Government recently decreed that all projects should be platform or Agile. This evening will be an opportunity for the LACies to work out how we could work together to make the most of this opportunity.

This intensive two day workshop aimed at leaders will help you apply lean principles such as Rapid Response, Constant Learning, Built-in Quality, Local Responsibility and Global Optimization to software development. This is the only time Tom & Mary Poppendieck are scheduled to visit the UK in 2011!

In this talk, Mary Poppendieck will compare and contrast the openings of Beijing Capital Airport Terminal 3 and Heathrow Terminal 5 and present the lessons they hold for anyone switching on complex systems that absolutely must be on time, and must work well—starting the very first day.

Following the success of our 'Off-line Job Board', where development teams can talk about new positions on their teams and developers (and agilists, testers, architects) can announce their availability, Skills Matter and MiniBar have joined up to see if we can take the idea of 'jobs for and by developers' further.

Master Jenkins with its creator, Kohsuke Kawaguchi, and accelerate your team's development process. Continuous Integration is a fundamental best practice of modern software development. Jenkins is the number one open source Continuous Integration Server.

After 3 successful years, The Progressive .NET Tutorials are back for another year of learning and sharing skills, the latest ideas, technologies and best practices for the development of scalable enterprise systems with modern .NET technologies and agile software development practices.

Zebra People is proud to host its second event on 26 November. Speakers from AKQA, Lab49, Nokia, Web Technology Group, and the only UK-accredited Axure trainer will be sharing their expertise. This non-profit event is an unmissable date on the calendar so book your tickets before 22 October for limited Early Bird prices.

A course for anybody who works in web development and wants to do it better using what works from both Agile and Lean methodologies.

A new approach to thinking about project management for web development inspired by the hugely successful Lean approaches developed by Toyota.